Characters / Superboy

• Heroic Sacrifice: He gains empathy, and decides to essentially commit cosmic suicide to allow Kon-El to live again, whilst essentially erasing the last bit of the Bad Future that he and his "father" Harvest had come from.
• Mythology Gag: He wears a costume that looks a lot like the 90s Superboy costume.

Robin III / Red Robin III

Timothy Jackson "Tim" Drake-Wayne

Tim Drake as Robin III

Kon-El's best friend whom he worked with in Young Justice and later Teen Titans and who makes a handful of appearances in Kon's own books. Tim was a relatively newly minted Robin when Kon first broke out of Cadmus. Despite Tim playing the straight man to Kon-El's antics the two hit it off immediately and both trust each other more easily then most of their more regular allies in their own books by the time Young Justice dissolved.

Created By: Marv Wolfman · Pat Broderick

First Appearance: 1989, Batman #436

• See Robin: Tim Drake

Impulse / Kid Flash

Bartholomew "Bart" Allen II

Another of Kon-El's closest friends in the superhero community. Bart was one of the three founding members of Young Justice alongside Kon and Tim and one of the four members of that team to continue on to the Teen Titans. Agenda got ahold of some of his DNA and used it to make one of their modified clones which Kon had to fight late in the series. Bart himself shows up as his fun-loving mostly carefree self when Kon is adjusting to Cadmus' new management.

Created By: Mark Waid · Mike Wieringo

first appearance: 1994, The Flash Vol. 2 #92

• See The Flash – The Flashes

Hillary Chang

The first friend Kon-El makes when he starts attending Ilupani High School in Honolulu. Hillary was the first fellow student he meets there who doesn't immediately start fawning over him or acting like a huge fan upon meeting him, instead acting completely unimpressed and snarking at him in their first interaction.

Created By: Karl Kesel · Tom Grummett

First Appearance: 1995, Superboy Vol 4 16

• Deadpan Snarker: Constantly, though she tones it back with teachers.
• Muggle Best Friend: Most of Kon's friends are other superheroes or are scientists of some type, while this regular girl he happens to meet when he tried out school in order to better reflect Superman's ideals is the person he trusts to look after Krypto when he can't, and who he trusts to get him out of trouble with Hawaii's overeager truancy officers.
• Snark-to-Snark Combat: With Kon and Tana who are both sharp enough to catch on and respond when she snarks at them, her best friend Robert on the other hand bemusedly catches on to what she's saying but knows he's too outclassed in the snark category by her to usually bother responding in kind.
• The Bus Came Back: Briefly when Kon-El brought Serling to see where he used to live in Hawaii and pick up Krypto.

D.C. Force

Created By:

First Appearance: 1993, Adventures of Superman Annual #5

Prince Tuftan

The Prince of Roam in the Wild Lands. Tuftan became Superboy's owner after SB had been drugged into a stupor by Sacker and brought into town to be sold. When Tuftan's interactions with SB caused him to learn that the humans had been made insensate before being brought before the Wild Men and were actually intelligent individuals capable of speech he quickly abolished his small country's enslavement of them.

Created By: Jack Kirby · Mike Royer · Karl Kesel · Tom Grummett

First Appearance: 1998, Superboy Vol 4 #50

• Assassination Attempt: He survived an assassination attempt by Nosferata.
• Cat Folk: He's a tiger man, as is his father and his girlfriend is a lioness woman.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: The second he learns that humans are sapient and capable of speech and the "medicine" they've been giving their human slaves has been keeping them mute and somewhat complacent he frees them and starts looking for ways to return them to their former lives and homes.

Sajan Mehra (Psionic Lad)

A refugee from a Bad Future who has misrepresented his purpose and mission in the present.

Created By: Jeff Lemire · Pier Gallo

First Appearance: 2010, Action Comics Vol 1 #892 - "Superboy" backup feature

• Psychic Powers: He's got a slew of them.
• Psychic Radar: Sajan can sense nearby lifeforms.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: He's been sent back in time from 2216 to prevent the Prime Hunter's rise to power.
• Something Person: His superhero name of choice makes Kon initially think he's from far further in the future than he really is since it resembles the style of names favored by the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Lori Luthor

Kon-El's sort of cousin—her uncle Lex Luthor is one of his two primary genetic donors—who has a crush on him and is disappointed Kon sees her as family.

Created By: Geoff Johns · Francis Manapul

First Appearance: 2009, Adventure Comics Vol 2 #1

• Alliterative Name: Lori Luthor.
• Kissing Cousins: She's romantically interested in her biological first cousin, which squicks him out.
• Psychic Block Defense: Lori has a natural block against Psychic Powers.

Simon Valentine (Prime Hunter)

A genius teen inventor who lives in Smallville.

Created By: Geoff Johns · Francis Manapul

First Appearance: 2009, Adventure Comics Vol 2 #1

• The Bus Came Back: He appears very briefly in Detective Comics (Rebirth) as one of Tim's classmates at Ivy University in the timeline of the Titans of Tomorrow.
• Cassette Craze: Frequently documents his experiments and field observations on a tape recorder.
• Evil Me Scares Me: Simon is not aware he's looking at himself but he's creeped out nonetheless by the evil figure Sajan projects into his mind when showing the Bad Future he's from.
• Expy: He's essentially Conner's version of both the youthful Lex Luthor of Clark's childhood, and of Jimmy Olsen
• Teen Genius: His projects have gotten the interest of Star Labs.

Tana Moon

A native Hawaiin who Superboy met back when he was still in Metropolis laying claim to the title of Superman duringThe Death of Superman storyline. When he meets her again in Hawaii she's working as a reporter for KONA-TV.

Created By: Karl Kesel · Tom Grummett

First Appearance: 1993, Adventures of Superman #501

• Age-Gap Romance: Tana was an adult in her 20s while Kon resembled a teenager but was barely days old when they first met. They began a relationship with it being acknowledge she was a grown woman with a career and he was just starting high school, but no one ever commented on the age gap even after she was killed.
• First Love: She was Kon's.
• Intrepid Reporter: Tana manages to get away from a lot of dangerous situations unscathed due to her relationship with Superboy meaning he's paying more attention to situations where she's possibly going to be in danger.
• Official Couple: She and Kon started dating after he moved to Hawaii and learned she'd moved back there since he'd last seen her.
• Targeted to Hurt the Hero: She was murdered by having an explosive strapped around her neck triggered by a grinning Amanda Spence right in front of Kon-El out of some sick need for vengeance even though all Kon has ever done to Amanda is save her life. Tana's mangled head and upper torso are even shown for shock value while Kon holds her in disbelief and grief. Her death was then used as an excuse to keep Kon from returning to Hawaii, by having her family blame Kon for her death, which is highly out of character for all her family members the reader was introduced to.
• Unequal Pairing: Superboy was only about a day old when they met while she was a grown adult who'd graduated college and was working as a reporter. Though she does care for him even she knows she's using his fondness for her to advance her career by getting exclusive interviews though she never brings up the ridiculous age gap between them. They were dating while he was in high school and she was an adult with a career.

Roxanne "Roxy" Leech

The more responsible and moral daughter of Kon's swindling manager Rex Leech.

Created By: Karl Kesel · Tom Grummett · Doug Hazlewood

First Appearance: 1993, Adventures of Superman #502

• Dumb Blonde: She's not actually an example at all but she played up the stereotype when she was forced to play the foolish "damsel" in her father's scams.
• Love Triangle: She loves Kon, who sees her as a sister and loves Tana.
• Superpower Silly Putty: She picks up a number of odd powers due to working with the new Special Crimes Unit of the Hawaiian police force and her father's ill fated and poorly conceived plans, including becoming host to an escaped Energy Being alien slave, and (on a separate occasion which led to the former) knowing how to pilot an experimental spacecraft.

Knockout/"Kay"

Created By: Karl Kesel · Tom Grummett

First Appearance: 1994, Superboy Vol 4 #1

• See New Gods – Apokolips

Cassandra "Cass" Cain (Batgirl II/Blackbat)

Cassandra Cain is the daughter of world renowned assassins Lady Shiva and David Cain, and the eventual adoptive sister of Kon's best friend Tim Drake. She and Superboy are briefly interested in each other but Cass realizes that she's really just looking for a friend, and Superboy is happy to be one. Due to Cass's abusive and isolated childhood she sometimes has trouble identifying her feelings towards others.

Created By: Kelley Puckett · Damion Scott

First Appearance: 1999, Batman #567

• See Batgirl or Batgirl (2000)

Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark (Wonder Girl)

Cassie Sandsmark is one of the "core four" of Young Justice alongside Kon, Tim and Bart. While she held something of a crush for Kon from their early days of teamwork his dismissive and immature attitude helped sour that initial attraction, though they remained among each other's closest friends. As the two of them matured they both grew to have more serious feelings for each other and started dating.

Created By: John Byrne

First Appearance: 1996, Wonder Woman Vol 2 #105

• See Wonder Woman: Allies

Dr. Serling Roquette

A young Cadmus genetics scientist with a crush on Conner. Her job also means experimenting on him, but she's not malicious about it like Cadmus at large by the point when he's forced to return and treated like government property rather than his own person.

Created By: Karl Kesel

First Appearance: 1998, Superboy Vol 4 #56

• See Cadmus under DC Comics Miscellaneous

Dubbilex

XX

Created By: Jack Kirby

First Appearance: 1971, Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #136

• See Cadmus under DC Comics Miscellaneous

Rex Leech

Superboy's manager and the in-series owner of the Superboy trademark.

Created By: Karl Kesel · Tom Grummett

First Appearance: 1993, Superman: Man of Steel #20

• Con Man: Before and after becoming Superboy's manager. This eventually leads to Superboy returning to Cadmus partially to escape his contract with him after he catches Rex setting up Engineered Heroics.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo: Deconstructed. He entirely ruins his more responsible daughter Roxy's life, even when it looks like she's finally going to escape when she joins the police in Hawaii he manages to ruin her attempt to build a career.
• Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Heck even his interactions with Superboy are this.
• Meaningful Name: Leech. He's a swindler who sees others as a potential paycheck and will suck them dry if given the opportunity.

Agent Makoa

Sam Makoa

A police detective in Honolulu who later becomes the leader of Hawaii's new Special Crimes Unit designed to deal with meta-human and other super-powered threats.

Created By: Karl Kesel · Tom Grummett

First Appearance: 1994, Superboy Vol 4 #1

• Friend on the Force: As ornery and abrasive as Sam is he still cares for Superboy and is the first to speak up for him or even risk his own position by going against others in regards to him. He also has no problem setting out to arrest the Kid if he feels the situation requires it, but he still doesn't want anyone trying to hurt SB.

A secret criminal organization run by those who think controlled clones are the key to fighting off earth's frequent alien invasions rather than superheroes. They also see their clone army as a source of power, and are big fans of the might makes right school of thought.

Created By: Ron Marz · Ramon Bernado

First Appearance: 1996, Superboy Vol 4 #32

• Clone Army: When they're first introduced they create an "improved" Superboy (mostly improved by his complete obedience) and intend to create a lot more and sell most of them to the highest bidder.
• Evil Counterpart: To Cadmus, which already had a number of its own moral failings.
• Expendable Clone: They see clones as a commodity to be sold, or destroyed if "outdated", rather than as individuals.
• Kill and Replace: Their mode of operation for the most part;
  "The old is sacrificed in order to make way for the new. That is the situation. Match is the new and his first labor is the destruction of the old."
• They Would Cut You Up: Agenda most certainly would kidnap, experiment on and dissect any clones they wanted to replicate or any people they felt it would be beneficial to clone.

Director Erica Alexandra del Portenza

Former wife of Lex Luthor, the mother of his daughter and a former Lex Corp CEO.

Created By: Roger Stern · Tom Grummett

First Appearance: 1995, Superman: Man of Tomorrow #1

• Older Than They Look: Her family lineage can live unnaturally long lives due to a meta-gene and in the twenty years she knew Lex prior to her faking her death she never physically aged.

Agent Spence

Amanda Spence

Paul Westfield's vindictive daughter Amanda Spence feels Superboy is unworthy of carrying her father's genes or legacy and decides to make his life miserable and kill him in return for being made.

Created By: Ron Marz · Ramon Bernado

First Appearance: 1996, Superboy Vol 4 #32

• Big Bad: Ultimately.
• Bulletproof Vest: She is usually wearing bullet resistant armor as part of her uniform.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Evidently Tana annoyed her after they kidnapped her and experimented on her so she not only went out of her way to kill Tana after giving her a Hope Spot, she also had her cloned just so she could have the pleasure of killing her twice.
• Evil Is Petty: See above.
• Family Honor: Why she takes Superboy's perceived deficiencies so seriously and decides to not only go out of her way to try to kill him but also to torture him both mentally and physically.
• Villainous Lineage: Both she and her father have a skewed sense of morality that they use to justify hurting others.

Match

Kent Conner

Agenda's modified prideful Superboy clone. Agenda cut some corners in their process of creating a quick obedient clone and in the process failed to address the issues with Kryptonian cloning that tends to cause degeneration, even if this flaw in their process was not immediately evident.

• Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: He was designed to be Superboy but "better", and certainly thinks of himself as such. He sees Kon as beneath him but Kon always beats him, sometimes even by cutting off his boasting with a well timed punch, even if early on it always took the situation making Match need to leave in a hurry rather than finish the fight since he really was stronger than Kon.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: He was incredibly proud of his intelligence, the clever plans he could put together, his ability to be subtle and his more refined manner of speech and everything "evil" or villainous he did was on his master's orders. Then he started degrading and became a dumb brute who'd attack others loudly and for little reason and Kon-El surpasses him in terms of actual strength and power when he reappears in Teen Titans.
• Clone Degeneration: Unfortunately for Match Agenda's cloning process has the same flaw as Dr. Teng's Bizarro creating cloning process of not including any living DNA in the clone even if the degeneration process is delayed and slower. He maintains the intelligence and cleverness he's so proud of throughout Superboy Vol 4 but when he appears again later he's started to become more Bizarro like until he's near indistinguishable from S-01 "Bizarre-O", Cadmus' first attempt at making a Superboy, and continues to degrade until his death at Superboy-Prime's hands.
• Broad Strokes: When Match was brought back by later writers he had more in common with S-01 than his prior self though he retained his history with Kon-El and the former members of Young Justice.
• Evil Counterpart: Match is an evil counterpart of Kon-El that Kon has to face.
• Evil Doppelgänger: Match, though when he's not changing his appearance with his additional powers he looks like a pallet swapped Kon-El instead of properly passing as him, is still an evil character that looks like Kon.
• Evil Knockoff: After Amanda Spence helped Agenda knock out and kidnap Superboy they used him to fashion a modified clone with more powers that would actually obey orders called Match and the first order given to him is to kill Superboy.
• Evil Twin: Match is an evil clone of Kon-El, though the odd manner of his creation means he was created by replicating the effects observed by Agenda scientists "unzipping" Kon-El's DNA leaving room for interpretation on how and out of what he was grown but Kon considers him a brother.
• I Am What I Am: Match says he is what he was created to be and there's no cause for him to stop trying to kill Superboy after his creators ordered him to, he also claims not to have any desire to do more than serve but after spending time pretending to be Kon-El among Young Justice he started to realize that he actually does, though it was already made evident by the end of his first appearance that there was more to him than he seemed to know.
  "In order for my existence to be considered slavery, it would be necessary for me to possess free will. That is not one of my personality facets. I was created to serve. I have no other purpose, nor the desire for one."
• Innocent Fanservice Guy: After his Naked on Arrival, he doesn't have much of a problem having a conversation in the nude, and when given an outfit to wear while doing so puts on the shirt first.
• Palette Swap: He's an entirely pale white version of Kon-El visually, with pale blonde hair and even white eyes.
• Pride: It's his greatest weakness initially, and eventually he loses all the things he was so proud of.
• Superpower Lottery: He seems to have Superman's whole set, even if it the powers start fading as he dies.
  • Flying Brick: Flyer with invulnerability and other powers.
  • Invisibility: One of Match's upgrades from Kon is his ability to turn invisible, though it might actually be Chameleon Camouflage or an extension of his psychic abilities as this particular ability is only shown twice and never thoroughly explained.
  • Master of Disguise: Match can use his low level psychic abilities to change the way his hair, eye and skin color look and make it look like he's wearing a different outfit. He is also capable of adopting other people's mannerisms and speech patterns. This mostly allows him to pretend to be Kon-El, even though he despises the way Kon talks and acts, since he's a Palette Swap of him.
  • Mind over Matter: He's got tactile telekinesis like Kon-El, but greater control over it as soon as he's awoken/activated.
  • Nigh-Invulnerable: He's got the same TTK field as Kon, and better control of it. He was later retconned to have the same weakened Kryptonian invulnerability as other "Bizarro" clones.
  • Super-Speed: He's as fast as Superboy.
  • Super-Strength: He has the same TTK that allows Kon-El to mimic super-strength and much better control of it, and later was given Kryptonian strength.

Tropes relating to Match in the Infinte Frontier era

Although he (along with Kon) was erased from continuity during The New 52, Match eventually returned in the pages of Suicide Squad. Amanda Waller, seeking a Superman-level powerhouse, kidnapped Superboy to fill the role. It was eventually revealed that Conner Kent would have been too difficult to capture and contain, and so Waller turned to the now-defunct Agenda, brainwashing Match to serve in his stead.

• Becoming the Mask: Even after his true identity is restored, the other members of the Suicide Squad note that he's still acting like The Cape. Waller's dialogue (and her confession to "Superman" in Future State) implies that this was All According to Plan.
• The Bus Came Back: He was absent for a decade after Flashpoint, since Conner didn't exist for most of that time. He returned as the Suicide Squad's resident "Superboy" in 2021.
• The Cape: Match's behaviour while brainwashed was consistent with the real Kon-El, refusing to kill and going off-mission to try and rescue those in need.
• Expendable Clone: A variation, in that Waller doesn't necessarily consider him especially expendable, but the rest of the world more or less forgot about him after the Agenda shut down, meaning nobody noticed when she grabbed him to mold into her own personal Superman.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Naturally, being upstanding and heroic doesn't endear him to his supervillain teammates, who initially consider him an annoying killjoy.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: Waller has his true memories supressed to use him as a stand-in for Conner on the Suicide Squad.
• Shapeshifting Failure: Without regular injections of special medicine, his body and speech patterns begin to revert to the Bizarro-like state he had in the 2003 run of Teen Titans. After The Reveal, Waller's scientists are able to stabilize his mind, but his appearance remains that of a Bizarro, and he even begins wearing a shirt with a backwards "S" shield.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: His brainwashing causes him to adopt the actual Conner's aversion to lethal force. Waller even reminds him of it to snap him out of his Unstoppable Rage when fighting Ultraman.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Thanks to a combination of recurring Clone Degeneration, a confrontation with the real Conner, and coming face to face with dozens of Superboy clones in tanks.
• Unstoppable Rage: Ultraman gets under his skin so bad that he stops trying to escape Earth-3 in favor of continuing to fight.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Waller justifies kidnapping and inducting "Superboy" by nonchalantly opining that, as a clone, his mere existence is a crime.

Gene-Gnome

• Adaptational Backstory Change: There are "G-Gnomes" in Young Justice (2010) but while they have Gene-Gnome's mind control abilities, propensity for riding around on shoulders and ties to Cadmus they're otherwise very different from Gene-Gnome. For one thing none of them seem to have anything resembling a personality and theyre now "genomorphs" instead of D.N.Aliens, though of course all other characters that were originally D.N.Aliens are now "genomorphs" in the show.
• Adaptation Personality Change: The G-Gnomes don't really seem to have any personality at all beyond that of maybe a cat or dog and are certainly not malicious even if their actions are often horrifying while Gene-Gnome was unquestionably a cruel vindictive villain.
• Adaptation Name Change: The G-Gnomes of Young Justice (2010) are obviously that earth's version of Gene-Gnome.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: In Young Justice (2010) the G-Gnomes were how Superboy had information implanted in his head while the method behind his implanted knowledge was not really explored in the original comics.
• Mind Manipulation: He secretly twists the thoughts Dub is reading off of his colleagues to make Dubbilex feel unwanted long before he actually reveals himself. He even twists the reader's perception of the others working at Cadmus and in the end it's left ambiguous just how any of them really felt about Dubbilex and the other less human looking and acting Cadmus creations, especially since Director Cannon's thoughts, which mostly fit Fantastic Racism, are implied not to have been tampered with.
• Parrot Pet Position: He's not a pet, but he's a tiny D.N.Alien that takes to sitting on Dubbilex's shoulder as an invisible mind controller after he strengthens their Psychic Link.
• Psychic Link: He creates one in between himself and Dubbilex in order to poison Dubbilex against Cadmus, he slowly uses the link to turn Dubb into a mind-controlled puppet.

Point Men

Grey Lady, Blank Slate, Blockade, Groundswell, Serpenteen, Short Cut

A group of super-powered Agenda soldiers created through the same destructive cloning process that resulted in Match. The whole group eventually defected after learning that they were clones and that their superiors considered them replaceable and humans in general idiotic and in need of "evolution".

• See Young Justice under Enemies

King Shark

Nanaue

• Antihero: Nanaue has a ~weird~ position in Atlantian society where his behavior is more understood even if no one cares for his eating people thing even there. He helps train the new Aquaman when the first goes missing. It helps that he's more chatty underwater.
• Arch-Enemy: He and Sam Makoa have a longstanding animosity. He starts going out of his way to save Makoa by about the time Superboy meets him but the detective never gets over his hatred of Nanaue since he had to watch him kill and eat his some of his fellow officers the first time he managed to arrest him, and King Shark always remains a threat to Makoa even with his respect for him.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: He kills Sidearm by tearing a huge hole in him with his claws when the other Suicide Squad member looks like he's going to shoot Makoa in the back, he doesn't even try to eat him which, as noted below, is the biggest sign of disrespect a shark in the DCU can give a body. Makoa had no clue about Sidearm's intentions, and Nanaue makes only a token attempt to enlighten him while Makoa yells at him for taking out one of their allies.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: He is incredibly detached from humanity. There are things even early on, like his warning some swimmers not to go in the water due to shark danger, and then sighing and eating them when they ignore him, that hint he just views the world through a very different lens.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He seems to care for his mother. This does not prevent him from eating her arm, though it does keep him from killing and eating her.
• Half-Human Hybrid: His mother Kaikea is a Hawaiian woman and his father is Lord Chondrakha, King-god of all Sharks.
• Not Enough to Bury: Makoa notes that his victims' bodies are never recovered because Nanaue eats them. This might be due to his relationship to sharks in the DCU as those with higher intelligence like Cron One-Eye make it clear it's the height of disrespect to the dead for a shark to leave a body uneaten.
• Parental Abandonment: By his father when he was young. He gets drunk every time he has to deal with or work for his father, and disobeyed him when he ordered Nanaue to kill Aquaman.
• The Quiet One: He very rarely speaks, though he's capable of it. The only thing preventing him from fitting under Beware the Quiet Ones is that he's (almost) never met anyone who failed to notice his general bloodthirsty nature.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: After Superboy was coaxed into moving back into Project Cadmus Nanaue became an Aquaman villain/anti-villain/anti-hero.
• Shark Man: He's a shark-human mix.
• Super-Toughness: He's bullet proof, and while a high powered extended application of a replication of Superman's heat vision knocks him for a loop and allows him to be captured it does so without doing any visible or lasting damage.
• Villainous Valor: He grows to respect Makoa to an extent, and brutally murders Sidearm when the other villain looks like he's going to shoot Makoa in the back.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: His fin usually (Depending on the Artist) would make it pretty difficult for him to wear a shirt. Also he usually does more swimming than walking.
• Would Hurt a Child: He attacked Tana's little niece Iolani unprovoked while she was playing in the ocean at a busy beach. Strangely, although he did hurt her he didn't kill her or anyone else even though he'd have been able to do so easily. It's possible he just enjoyed scaring everyone out of the water and decided to just let Iolani go when Superboy grabbed her out of the water. He does have a weird sense of humor as demonstrated when he chucked Jimmy Olsen out a window in Villains United, dressed as Black Canary of all things.

Lady Dragon

???

"Lady Dragon" is the leader of the strange criminal organization known as the Silicon Dragons. With Superboy's arrival in Hawaii Sam Makoa worries the Dragon's will start to ramp up their firepower to remain on the same power level as their opponents, and he's right.

• Dragon Lady: As her name makes clearly evident.
• Laser Blade: She uses a plasma sword to fight Superboy.
• Eyepatch of Power: A Cybernetic eyepatch which allows her to see the interface for remote controlling the Dragon's fancy underwater hideout.
• The Leader: Of the Silicon Dragons.
• Leotard of Power: She wears a green one-sleeved leotard.
• Villainous Valor: To a bizarre extent. She'd chop off her own arm in order to stay on the same power level as an opponent.

Silver Sword

Arnold Kaua

• Chrome Champion: He was accidentally merged with a silvery experimental substance that responds to his mental commands and which he coats himself with to fly. He even thinks he's a hero, fighting for the preservation of native Hawaiian culture but he's actually an anti-villain in practice as he doesn't put much stock in existing Hawaiian culture and tends to forget about the people currently living there.
• Color Character: Silver Sword.
• Cool Helmet: His shiny silvery mahiole.
• Recurring Character: Recurring villain through the early part of the series.

Queen Nosferata

Nosferata is a Wild Lander with big plans for her own advancement and her own army separate from that of the Royals.

• Beast Folk: She's got a lot of bat traits, but her only noticeable hair is the long stuff on top of her head.
• Black Eyes of Evil: Her eyes are portrayed as either solid black or solid blue.
• Slouch of Villainy: She's first introduced leaning back in her carved stone throne as she listens to a minion's report.

Kossak the Slaver

An extraterrestrial slave trader with a ship nearly as big as the earth.

• Irony: He was once a slave on the very slave ship he now runs as a particularly cruel slave trader before he managed to overthrow the previous master.
• Self-Disposing Villain: He, maybe, atomizes himself rather than be caught. Superboy wonders if he actually teleported instead, either way he's never seen again.

Sidearm

????

Superboy's first villain. A bank robber who possesses a "technovest" with modular robot arms (one at a time). He later appeared as part of the Suicide Squad, where King Shark killed him for trying to shoot Detective Makoa in the back.

• Alas, Poor Villain: Gets eaten by King Shark in the Suicide Squad storyline.
• Berserk Button: Does not like Superboy getting his name wrong.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: His increasing frustration with Superboy is easy to understand, especially since someone whose superpower is mechanical and (usually) lacks a range attack is the worst person to be fighting Superboy — in their first battle (told in flashback in the zero issue) Kon destroyed his arm with tactile telekinesis before he even knew he had tactile telekinesis.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Sidearm was equipped with a special cybernetic vest equipped with modular appendages capable of increasing his strength to superhuman levels.
• Plug 'n' Play Technology: Presumably his own arms are designed to plug in and out of the vest, but he also steals Professor Hamilton's prosthetic and it connects without any difficulty.
• Shoulder Cannon: One of the Tecnovest's mountings is multi-barreled cannon mounted behind his right shoulder.

Luis Rojas

Jon Kent's own Expy of Lex Luthor, he is a young teenager who launches a campaign against Kryptonians with the help of Luthor.

Dominator X

First appearance: Superboy: The Man Of Tomorrow #1

Creators: Kenny Porter, Jahnoy Lindsay

Species: Dominator

• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: X is colored purple to distinguish him from the rest of his species, who are usually yellow.

Cyborg Superboy

Travv

First appearance: Superboy: The Man Of Tomorrow #1, #5 (as Cyborg Superboy)

Creators: Kenny Porter, Jahnoy Lindsay

Species: Daxamite (formerly), Human/Kryptonian hybrid (cyborg)

• Blessed with Suck: This is what Travv thinks of his technopathy, since the augmentation cost whatever powers he would have developed as a Daxamite.
• Brain Uploading: When Travv's initial fight with Superboy destroys his original body, Travv's cybernetic spine transfers his consciousness into a cybernetically augmented clone body of Conner, becoming Cyborg Superboy.
• Child Soldier: Travv was genetically engineered by Dominator X as a weapon to be sold to the highest bidder.
• Lack of Empathy: Travv is more than willing to use his fellow genetic experiments as weapons against Dominator X.